User Interface Overview
| Workflow Tabs: Each Workflow has its own tab. The cog icon informs about the state of a workflow (stopped or executing). | |
| Workflow View: This is where Units are placed, arranged, connected and modified. The background and the behavior of the Workflow view can be configured in the Inspector. | |
| Inspector: Shows general project settings, variables, parameters. | |
| Message Log: Displays general information, output of Units and Workflow tracing info. | |
| Memory Monitor: Displays memory allocation for the current project. |
User Interface: Inspector Tabs
Explained here are the tabs, from left to right.
| Project: Project specific settings. | |
| Attributes: Shows the attributes of a selected Unit. | |
| Unit Library: Lists all available Units and shows a short description. | |
| Layout and Workspace: Contains several Workspace related options. | |
| File Browser: A file browser to browse your file system. | |
| Daemons: Discovers and lists on:core Daemons. |
User Interface: Inspector – Project Tab
| Workflows: Lists all Workflows of the current Project. | |
| Variables: Lists all variables of the current Project. | |
| Global: Shows global settings. |
User Interface: Inspector – Project Tab – Workflows
| Workflow List: Lists all Workflows of the current Project. | |
| Add Workflow: Lists all variables of the current Project. | |
| Duplicate Workflow: Duplicates the selected Workflow. | |
| Remove Workflow: Removes the selected Workflow. | |
| Workflow Name: Here you can specify the name of the selected Workflow. | |
| Execute On Run: When enabled, the selected Workflow is being executed when the Project is running. | |
| Show Port Values: Shows values (which are transmitted via cables) next to the ports of Units. | |
| Show Cable Values: Shows values which are transmitted via cables. | |
| Show Dataflow Visualization: Highlights cables when data is transmitted. | |
| Cable Highlighting: Select how cables will be rendered. | |
| Lock Workflow: Locked workflows cannot be deleted. |
User Interface: Message Log & Memory Monitor
| Log Options: Determine which log entries will be shown. |
| Show/Hide Memory Monitor: Shows or hides the Memory Monitor (on the right of the Message Log). |
| Enable/Disable Workflow Tracing: When enabled the Workflow(s) are being traced when executing them. Tracing logs each step/action/event which occurs in a Workflow. |
| Reveal Log: Reveals the logfile in the OS filesystem. |
| Clear Log: Clears the Message Log. |
| Date Column: Each Log entry has a timestamp, displayed in this column. |
| Level: There are several levels of messages (info, debug, warn, error, fatal and trace). |
| Message: Content of the log entry. |
| Memory Monitor: Displays how much memory is allocated and used for the current project. |
 | Run GC: Manually executes garbage collection (frees up memory, if possible). |